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(40 TRAVELS
clear tranfparency of their waters reflecting every object on their
banks, and prefenting the animated picture of fkiffs, oars, and
{mall fails, are now turned into a place of rendezvous for Hayoke)
and children mingling in one throng. They walk, flide, fly about
in fledges, or glide along on {mall fkates. In the exercife of
f{kating they difplay great dexterity and addrefs, and amufe the
fpectators with the eafe and quicknefs of their various move-
ments; darting forward with the {peed of arrows; turning and
returning, and balancing their bodies according to inclination
and circumftances, in fuch a manner that it is fometimes diffi-
cult to imagine what can be their principle of motion. There
is no part of this great mafs of water that is not arrefted and
fubdued by the froft, except the current under the north bridge,
and on the fouth near the king’s ftables. Here the water, which
during the keeneft froft dafhes and foams with great noife
through the arches of the bridge, fends up majeftic clouds of va-
pour to a confiderable height in the atmofphere; where, in the
extreme rigour of winter, being converted by the intenfenefs of
the cold into folid particles, they are precipitated down through
their weight, and prefenting their furface to the fun, affume the
appearance of a fhower of filver fand, reflecting the folar rays, and
adorned with all manner of colours. In the intertor of Stock-
‘holm, throughout all its different quarters, every thing in winter
in like manner undergoes a fudden change. ‘The {now that be-
gins to fali in the latter weeks of autumn covers and hides the
{treets for the {pace of fix months ; and renders them more plea-
fant
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